CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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33 34 35 36 1 2 Evil ways we all have (6) Is sweet, but can make you sick in a sticky coating (8) Creature confused by clouts (6)

A backward fool keeping himself to himself (5) Here’s your chance to play detective (4)

Go round, or simply go (4) Price is both officer and saint (4)

One side is insufficient for the whole game (3)

Is it much the same as Iraq? (4)

Public address I’d settled the bill for (4)

A bunion, say, won’t help a tennis player (4,5) Transferred foreign currency to the capital of Turkey (4) Despite appearances, it doesn’t mean ‘from’ (4) He’s a bit decadent (3) The part of a toaster that dries (4)

Beat back in a game (4) Continental region to fly from briefly (4) Dramatically put on a coach (5)

What’s new in battleship construction (6)

They follow the horses and are number ten in the charts (8) Pretentiously artistic outfits for church (6)

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Being so small, it can get out of traps (5)

First lady to be seated, in a 3 4

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20 sense (5) Something to sing about when smelling it? (4) Finds a market for sound electric batteries (5) Pleasant looking resort (4) Being out of the wood, we’d cleaned up (6) Product with which a shifty tout admits turning up (6) Pull by the ear (3)

It’s bulbous yet skinny (5) To make a mess is a bewildering thing to do (7) Some secateurs can scratch! (3)

Left it switched on? (3) They go round or up over hills (6)

The childless total frequently is high (5)